Mancx Survey: 98% of Americans1 Distrust
Information On The Internet

Nearly every American1
(98%) says there are things that cause them to distrust the information
found on the Internet, and 93% say their satisfaction with online
information could be improved

94% say bad things can happen as a result of acting on inaccurate
information online

July 17, 2012 08:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mancx,
the trusted community for business answers, today announced the findings
of its online survey of over 1,900 American adults who look for answers
online conducted by Harris Interactive in late June 2012. The survey,
which was drafted based on Mancx’s experience in the global knowledge
market, found that nearly every online American adult (98%) who looks
for information online finds reasons to distrust the information they
find, including:

Too many ads – 59%

Outdated information – 56%

Information is self-promotional – 53%

Unfamiliar forums – 45%

With these numbers, it’s not a surprise that people say their
satisfaction could be improved. In fact, 93% of those who look for
information online say they could be more satisfied with the information
they find online, and trust is a major factor. To back this up, nearly 3
in 5 people said it would be an improvement if the answers they found
could be trusted and 54% say it would be an improvement if the answers
always came from trusted sources.

Online searchers also said they would like improvements in answers
always being up-to-date (53%) and less time wasted searching (32%).

“These findings demonstrate that people want online information to be
more credible than it is today, and that current web services just don’t
cut it,” said Mattias Guilotte, Mancx CMO and Co-founder. “Mancx offers
a solution by giving people a new way to find the answers they need by
matching questions with a trusted source, and allows them to exchange
answers and money in a trusted environment.”

In addition to trust, American adults who look for information online
are also concerned about what this means for their daily lives. 94% say
they believe bad things could happen to them as a result of acting on
inaccurate online information. Those bad consequences include waste of
time (67%), followed by:

Get a computer virus – 63%

Lose money – 51%

Risk of fraud – 51%

Damage my credibility – 36%

Other consequences include:

Get Fired – 14%

Loss of Spouse/Relationship – 9%

When asked what people would be willing to do if it meant they could
always find the information they were looking for online, 2% of American
adults who look for information online even admitted they would be
willing to give up their spouse, with men statistically more likely to
say this than women.

When the accuracy of online information isn’t causing concern for
Americans, the lack of any information related to their search is. The
so-called “offline problem” is still an issue. Not all information
sources have been uploaded, and consumers are noticing. 84% of American
adults who look for information online report that there are times when
the information they are searching for online is not available online.

About Mancx

With dual headquarters in San Francisco, CA and Stockholm, Sweden,
Mancx.com is the only trusted community for business answers that allows
for private individuals to openly or anonymously buy and sell their
knowledge with others in a trusted, fully transactional, and secure
environment.

The patent-pending technology behind the Mancx Business Answers™
community matches incoming questions with the right person’s expertise
on business networks like LinkedIn and Viadeo while managing all aspects
of the transaction. This ensures that the questioner gets the
information he or she needs while the answering party gets paid for
their efforts and builds their personal brand profile as a source of
valuable answers.

Mancx is the winner of the "Hottest Startup in the Nordics and Baltics"
at the Arctic15.

For more information, please visit www.mancx.com
or follow us on Twitter @Mancx.

Survey Methodology

This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris
Interactive via its QuickQuery omnibus product on behalf of Mancx from
June 29 - July 3, 2012 among 2,088 adults ages 18 and older, of whom
1,942 ever look for information online. This online survey is not based
on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical
sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey methodology,
including raw data and weighting variables, please contact Heedrin
Bustamante at Heedrin.bustamante@graylingcp.com.